Toya's Painting of Tulips

Victoria has been painting with me and this is one of hers. This is only her fourth oil painting. She is a natural!

Early Spring

Post Valentine

Victoria and I wanted to give ourselves a 15 minute time limit to paint, after preparing. It was a good exercise to be definite with strokes and values.

The Fam

Victoria is home on her reading week and we are having such a wonderful time together. Today we set up a still life and painted.

Tucked

Does this look a bit confusing?

Mandarin Bowl

Playing with colours.....

Winter Sky

This painting had all cold colours, so I gave it a bit of pink highlight where the emerging sun was striking the frosty snow. I am on a posting marathon, something for every day of January, no matter what. This one might qualify under "what".

Tea Party

When the girls were small, they had numerous tea parties and these are their little cups. Sundays are the days that I find hardest to paint, and tend to study more. Today it was all about colour bias and creating vivid saturated colour - maybe that is why the background is such a high key green!

This little piggy.....

Another piggy challenge - for practice with shapes, values and all that wonderful stuff.

Brass Jug #2

Another quick one of the jug. Have bought some new brushes to try out tomorrow.

Frosty Morning

Since we are snowed in anyways, I am still on the hoar frost theme. I wanted to see how few and specific my strokes could become.

Twilight

Driving home from Ottawa last night, the sun had just set and the horizon was brilliant. I wanted to remember the colour sequence and paint it for the sheer joy of the colour.

Nutty Ensemble

Some whole nuts were left over from Christmas, so I decided to experiment with values in the different nuts. There is very little dark, lots of mid range and some light. The open walnuts had the best contrast.

Back to Basics

The basics - shapes (and that includes ellipses), value, colour etc.

I am reading a book called "The Talent Code" which describes the effective way of learning so that we create the brain pathways - neurotransmittors wrapped in myelin - so in other words, practice is key, but correct constructive practice creates fast firing circuits.

So I am going back to slow, methodical, aware practicing ....... called DEEP Practice.

Now we know!

Next I need to connect with a "hotbed". Will keep you posted!

Partners

Painting day with Mary - now we are indoors. I am working on variegating the colours in the background and shadows.

Warm ups

Continuing the theme of softer edges, I am working on loosening up with more flow. Am going to paint out in the country today, so this is my warmup.